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[wind blowing] the temperature a bare 10 degrees above zero. The wind, a cutting 20 miles per hour. The date, almost any bleak day in january, 1778. The place, valley forge, pennsylvania. The event, famine, disease. Exhaustion, and disease. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an weary eye on the wellfed british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast, on this bone chilling morn...

Exhaustion. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an wary eye on that well fit british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast. Morning,one chilling 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. One third to one half of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, huts of clay wit...

Cable partner traveling to toledo, ohio are coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the citys history and learn how it came to be known as the glass capital of the world and in about 15 minutes the story of general mad Anthony Wayne and his role in the western expansion into ohio and later that toledo crash of 1931 we begin our special feature with the citys mayor. I think places like toledo are taken for granted and that this shame because there is such a wonderful his...

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Six nor people diagnosed in the bronx outbreak that brings a totally of confirm cases of legionnaires disease of 60 people so far. Hillary clinton is rolling out her First Campaign ad in the 2016 race. And there are new reports this by the new york tiles over o the weekend that joe biden is very close, this close to getting into the race himself apparently it was his dying sons final wish. Wow. All right we shall see good morning everybody im juliet huddy. Ben im Ben Simmoneau, monday morning. B...

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He is best known throughout new york for the series of video walking tours presented by channel 13, including the Emmy Award Nominated shows 42nd street, broadway and harlem. He lectured at numerous vienna venues, including columbia, university of pennsylvania and smithsonian and Harvard Graduate School of planning and architecture. We always like to ask everyone to turn off cell phones and electronic beepers. Now lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. Thank you. [applause] professor lewis i dont...

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